Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Recasting the Courtly: Translations of Medieval Language and Form in the Nineteenth Century 'Though Females are Forbidden to Interfere in Politics': War, Medievalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer 'It's Strictly the Woman's Part and Men Understand it So': Romance, Gender and the Spectacle of the Crimean The End of Chivalry?: Joan of Arc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer Queenship, Chivalry and 'Queenly' Women in the Age of Victoria Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century Re-reading Guinevere: Women Illustrators, Tennyson and Morris

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Clare Broome Saunders

Pressestimmen

"The break-up of the Yugoslav federation, civil war and genocide in Rwanda and Sudan, consolidation of the European Union, and the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism are all symptomatic of the importance of identity politics in contemporary world affairs. While most current scholarly and policy discourse tends to frame international and intranational conflicts in terms of clashes of interests, there is much to be said about these interests themselves being constructed from the relevant groups' self-identities and their identification (or the lack thereof) with their counterparts: interests are derivative of identities. This volume takes on the important topic of evolving identities across the Taiwan Strait and on the Korean peninsula, and offers a penetrating series of analyses that goes beyond the current headlines."
- Steven Chan, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
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- Suisheng Zhao, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and author of A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism
"Analysts and commentators regularly cite East Asian national identities and identity crises as driving the region's conflicts, but do not specify how. This book goes well beyond simply taking note of the identity dimension. By making it the central element of a reevaluation of the East Asian security situation, this book provides a deeper understanding of the international politics of this crucial region today."
- Patrick Morgan, Tierney Chair in Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine"Recommended." - CHOICE